Access To Higher Education

EDM number 11 in 2004-05, proposed by Angela Watkinson on 23/11/2004.

That this House believes that access to higher education should be based on merit; notes with concern that many able pupils with excellent examination results are being denied access to university places for social rather than academic reasons; and calls on the Government to ensure that efforts to improve opportunities for young people from poorer backgrounds are not carried out at the expense of those who have earned places on merit.

This motion has been signed by a total of 67 MPs.